A male escort who cut off a consenting man’s genitals and filmed the procedure for a pay-per-view website has been jailed for five years.
Damien Byrnes, 36, removed Marius Gustavson’s penis and testicles with a kitchen knife in February 2017.
Byrnes, along with Jacob Crimi-Appleby, 23, and Nathaniel Arnold, 48, pleaded guilty to causing GBH with intent.
Crimi-Appleby froze Gustavson’s leg in dry ice, leading to its amputation, while Arnold part-removed a nipple.
Crimi-Appleby was jailed for three years and eight months. Arnold was given a two-year suspended prison sentence.
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The Old Bailey had previously heard the procedure carried out by Byrnes is linked to a subculture where men become “nullos” – short for genital nullification – by having their penis and testicles removed.
Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said Byrnes, from Tottenham in north London, was among 10 people charged with taking part in extreme body modifications.
She told the court Byrnes was hired by Gustavson, who called himself “the eunuch-maker” and had been involved in “numerous” extreme body-modification procedures including the removal of other men’s genitals.
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